Hakhel Message From Rabbis of Baltimore

[Music] those name [Music] every seventh year on the Jewish calendar is known as a year of gathering there's a quality that we refer to as atmosphere being in a certain framework in a certain environment that can itself be transformative because of something that you specifically learn or consciously absorb just being in a certain environment with a certain framework where special things are happening where values are being expressed where ideals and aspirations are strong just being there can bring up everybody who is there still history every surface is a time when we celebrate being an environment that's transforming and especially being in a place of Celebration a place of celebration of the values of our Muna values of Holy Spirit where we get together just to sing and enjoy entertainment but to sing the words of the ideas that Holly show dreams about how Israel aspires to plungewell stands for it's an opportunity and a genuine environment that can be created by celebrating all that all that's holy always pure all that will generate bringing presence of hashems in the reverence of Hashem it should become embedded in personality the character of each of us when the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem the entire Jewish people every man woman and child would travel to Jerusalem on the special day the kohanim would fan out throughout the city and blow golden bugles to assemble the nation and they would come together in the courtyard of the Holy Temple the king of the Jewish people would read selected passages of the Torah and they would stand in awe and reverence for the word of God how fortunate we are that the circus commemorates the hakkil the event the Melech the Mela who's the lever arm who gathered the entire Jewish people we would gather together to make a presentation of the lava um when you make a presentation that reflects the rotten of Hashem and everything that we do I encourage everyone to join in this great effort to bring the labor arm which will hope hopefully be a catalyst to the bringing of the melach who will be coming from Canada introduces us to the Mitzvah of to the midst of gathering all of Clan Israel to get in the Torah writes gather everyone together the men the women children The Stranger in your midst of why are we Gathering everyone together Torah says that people should hear people should learn and ultimately again people will come to Revere and appreciate in order to keep the entire Torah it's an assembly it's a gathering that is designed in order to strengthen our relationship to akadeshbarahu to strengthen our relationship to Torah and by extension to strengthen our relationship to each other and Rashi already says so beautifully I understand why the men have to come why the women have to come adults they gain and they glean so much from this experience Rashi says why do you have to bring the children in order to give reward to the parents who are bringing their own children but it's interesting to notice as follows so from this plastic what it sounds like is the children who come they don't really absorb the enormity of the circumstance of the situation of the Gathering of all of Kalisa getting together to strengthened to solidifies to concretize our relationship to actor to each other but you bring the kids anyway in order to give reward to the parents who are slapping them along but then the next posix says something amazing and the young children who don't know really what's going on they will ultimately hear they'll hear what's going on and they'll learn to Revere hakadishbarahu so what's going on you just said before that at the end of the day the children they don't really know what's flying they don't really know what's going on so why are you bringing the kids ah in order to go ahead and give SAR to give reward to the to the parents to the ones who bring them be at the very next person says that even your children who have no idea what's going on they don't know what's going on [Music] and they will come to reverse explains so beautifully what the Taurus saying is like this it's true the young children to come they're not going to know what's funny I can know what's going on but at the end of the day they'll be able to absorb the enormity of this Gathering through osmosis sometimes just being in the right place in the right circumstances in the right atmosphere sometimes just surrounding yourselves self with kidusha sometimes just surrounding yourself with your brothers and sisters embedding yourself within the fabric of cloud Israel that has a dramatic impact on who and what you are and even if the mind even if the intellect does not grasp the enormity of what it is that is unfolding ultimately then shama does and when the shama is bolstered by being within claudisra when an ashama is bolstered by being embedded again within the fabric of cloud Israel the name even children who don't have developed intellect to be able to know what it is that is occurring over here they'll hear they'll absorb the thrasmosis the London [Music] just by putting yourself sometimes in the right circumstances here that most beautiful and dramatic impact on who and what you are and a gathering like this a beautiful Gathering like this with the express purpose of just bringing clowns all together bringing a community together a community which is comprised of so many different types of men women and children people from different backgrounds people from different ways of life all coming together why celebrate our reborn to celebrate our God to celebrate our Torah to celebrate our mitzvos to celebrate our nation whether you have a developed intellect and could ingest all of this intellectual about what this means on a higher level or maybe unlike a child who doesn't have such a development like it doesn't matter with an atmosphere like this with a can do shot like this we all emerge better we all emerge stronger we all emerge I think the opportunity to wish everyone a good mind and a beautiful young tip and in America of our trying to fulfill this mitsu of hakao in our own way communally and locally may it be a year of incredible actors a year of togetherness with our fellow Jew with ourselves and within the reborn and thank you for attending